Chapter 7: Ethnicity Flashcards
Define Ethnicity vs Race
Ethnicity= Identity with a group of people who share the same cultural traditions of a particular hearth
Race= Identity with a group that shares a common ancestor / physical traits like skin color
What does Intersectionality mean?
A combination of how the world sees you
Explain the interregional and intraregional migration of the Great Migration
Interregional= south to west and north
Intraregional= to suburbs where it is safer
What is racism?
The belief that a certain race is superior and that race determines traits
How are ethnicities distributed in the US?
a. Hispanic Americans
b. Asian Americans
c. African Americans
d. Descendants of Indigenous peoples
a. clustered in the SW
b. Clustered in West (By bay area)
c. clustered in SE
d. clustered in SW, north-central, and Alaska
How does Brazil classify race on the census?
What is distribution of race in the country?
Race is classified by 5 skin colors in Brazil, South is mostly white, North is mostly Indigenous poeples
What is an Ethnic Enclave? and what is an Ethnoburb?
An Ethnic Enclave is a place with a high concentration of a specific ethnic group in contrast to the area around it
An Ethnoburb is an ethnic enclave in a suburb
Describe white flight and blockbusting
Describe redlining
white flight and blockbusting is when real estate agents telling whites to move out of their homes for business by telling them that black people moving to their neighborhood would decrease property value.
redlining is when banks would draw lines on a map of where they wont lend money to buy property
What are the differences and similarities between Jim crow and Apartheid?
Similarities= there was racial segregation in which whites dominated
Differences= In Jim crow, whites were in majority but in apartheid, they are minority
What is sharecropping?
When a farmer rents land and pays the owner back with some of the crops.
Describe Apartheid. Where was it? What racial group was in political power?
Apartheid was a set of laws in South Africa in which whites were in charge, used segregation to move black, colored, and asian people to homelands.
What country owned South Asia? Why did they divide the region into India and Pakistan? What were migration patterns like after the divide?
Britain owned South Asia, and divided it because Pakistan was mostly Muslim and India was mostly HIndu. This caused mass migration of people who were on the wrong side of the line.
Who are the Kurdish people, what is their religion? Where do they live?
Kurds are sunni muslims with a distict culture, but no land. They reside mostly in Turkey, with populations also in Syria, Iraq, and Iran
What is nationalism?
loyalty and devotion to a nationality
What is a dreamer?
Someone who isn’t a citizen of a country (like the US) but has only ever lived there
